Edward Ashdown Bunyard (1878-1939) was England's foremost pomologist (student of apples) and a significant gastronome and epicure in the 1920s and 30s. This volume includes a biographical essay on Edward Bunyard and chapters about his friendship with Norman Douglas; his literary tastes; his scientific work in plant genetics; and more.

This volume of essays, written for the most part by Edward Wilson, English scholar and fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, but with important contributions by Joan Morgan (currently England's foremost authority on the history of apples and the place of dessert in Victorian dining), Alan Bell (biographer of Sydney Smith, formerly Librarian of the London Library) and Simon Hiscock (Senior Research Fellow in Botany at Worcester College, Oxford) topped and tailed by poems from Arnd Kerkhecker and U.A. Fanthorpe. The studies include a biographical essay on Edward Bunyard and chapters about his friendship with Norman Douglas; his literary tastes; his scientific work in plant genetics; his relationship with the epicurian society, The Saintsbury Club; his work seen in the context of inter-war gastronomic writing; and his contribution to the horticultural world, particularly as a pomologist and enthusiast of English roses. It closes with a full bibliography of works by, and about, Bunyard.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Plates
ARND KERKHECKER, Amuse-Gueule
1. EDWARD WILSON, Edward Ashdown Bunyard: A Biographical Essay
2. EDWARD WILSON, Edward Bunyard and Literature
3. EDWARD WILSON, Edward Bunyard (1878-1939) and Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
4. SIMON HISCOCK, Bunyard on Xenia
5. ALAN BELL, Bunyard and the Saintsbury Club
6. RICHARD SHARP, The Epicurean Context of Edward Bunyard
7. JOAN MORGAN, Edward Bunyard the Epicurean Nurseryman
8. JOAN MORGAN, Edward Bunyard the Pomologist
9. JOAN MORGAN, Edward Bunyard the Rosarian
10. JOAN MORGAN, Edward Bunyard the Committee Man
U.A. FANTHORPE, The Apple War
EDWARD WILSON, Bibliography of the Publications of EdwardAshdown Bunyard
EDWARD WILSON, Bibliography of Articles and Obituaries on
Edward Ashdown Bunyard
Appendix MAURICE HEALY, Edward Bunyard: In Memoriam